Buckle.



Patented Mar. 26, I901.

E. w. Gauss cum;

BUCKLE.

(Application filed Sept. 4, 1900.;

(No Model.)

INVENTOR,

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UNITED STATES EDWIN WRIGHT GROESCHEL, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

\ BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 670.493. dated March26, 1901. Application filed September 4, i900. SerialNo.28,904. unmade.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN WRIGHT Gnos- SOHEL, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing in Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State ofNew Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBuckles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing bad to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to belt-buckles, and it has referenceparticularly to that class of such devices in which the buckle consistsof two members adapted to be suitably secured to the meeting portions ofa belt and to be interlocked with each other by virtue of elastic hookedparts on one member engaging the other member in such manner that themembers cannot be readily unlocked, except by imparting thereto afoldingorbuckling movement, whereby said elastic parts are sprung out ofengagement. I am aware that it has been heretofore proposed to constructabuckle of this nature so that one member has a part in the shape of anarrow which is adapted to be engaged by a pair of spring or elasticparts projecting from the other member and having hooked ends whose tipsturn slightly inwardly in such manner that when said hooked parts areengaging the arrow their said tips engage the shank of the arrow, andthus disengagement can be most readily eifected only by folding orbuckling the members in the manner already indicated. Instead ofemploying the arrow-shaped part I propose to, in effect, split the samelongitudinally and dispose the sections thus formed. in the memberhaving them in appreciably-spaced relation and with barb toward barb andto corre spon dingly space the elastic parts of the other member,turning the tips of their hooked portions slightly outwardly, so thatthey will take under the shanks of the said sections. This constructionimparts greater rigidity to the connected members, any possibility ofeither member moving relatively to the other in the plane in which theylie when connected being perfectly avoided.

My invention therefore consists in a belt- I The member 1) consists oftwo side bars 0,

which are inturned near one end and there joined by a bar (1, while attheir other ends they are joined by elongated loop portion 6, theseveral parts being of course integrally formed. The loop portion eaffords a space f, through which the adjustable folded portion g of thebelt It may be extended, being held by a spur t', which extends from theloop portion 8-, and penetrating one of the holes j of said belt. Nearthe bar d the side bars 0 are provided ontheir inner sides with barbs k,which have their rear surfacesll converging toward each other, whiletheir surfaces 'm provide stops or abutments.

The member a consists of a single bar of the metal bent in such form asto produce the straight bar n, to which the other end of the belt h isadapted to be secured, and two side bars 0, extending from the ends ofsaid barn and bent first sharply inwardly into proximity to each other,so as to produce a confined space 10 for said end of the belt, and thendiverging slightly toward their ends. Each side bar 0 terminates in ahook q, said hooks being just about far enough apart so as to ofjunction between each side bar 0 and the bar 01 of the member I).

In interconnecting or interlocking the members the wearer first placesthe hooked ends of the member a, in the space 8 of the member Z), theside bars 0 of which are slightly farther apart here than at their otherends, and then draws the two members in opposite directions, whereby thehooks q are caused to wipe over the barbs 2' until they finally rest inthe recesses 1'. In this position the combined pull of the belt andaction of the diverging tips of the hooks in taking against the underside of the member 6 obviate perfectly any tendency toward accidentalseparation of the members. In order to separate them,they are folded orbuckled, their directly-engaging portions being forced outwardly,whereby the tips will be crowded together, so that the hooks willrelease themselves.

By constructing the buckle in the manner described the members are notonly prevented from being accidentally turned on each other in theircommon plane, and thus, possibly, unintentionally disconnected, but adevice of substantial and pleasing appearance is produced.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

In a buckle, the combination of two members, one of said memberscomprising, integrally formed, a substantially straight intermediate-barportion, elastic side-bar portions extending from the ends of saidintermediatebar portion and bent first inwardly toward each other, tothus form with said intermediate-bar portion a confined belt'space, andthen divergently and having their free ends turned off out of thegeneral plane of said member, thus forming hooks, and the tips of saidhooks being bent outwardly away from each other, and the other of saidmembers comprising, also integrally formed, sidebar portions, anintermediate-bar portion adapted to be engaged by the books of the othermember and connecting said side-bar portions at one end, and anelongated beltreceiving loop portion connecting said sidebar portions atthe other end, said last-named side-bar portions converging away fromthe loop portion and having inwardly-projecting stops orabntmentsdisposed contiguous thereto, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this27th day of August, 1900.

EDWIN WRIGHT GROESOHEL.

Witnesses:

JOHN W. STEVVARD, ALFRED GARTNER.

